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Album of the Week
In light of the upcoming Christmas holiday, this week's album is a historic holiday album: Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas. Originally a compilation of five of Crosby's hit singles, the album was later expanded to an LP and contained twelve great Christmas classics. The album itself has been in print since its original release in 1945, selling over 15 million copies in that span. This album also contains the best selling single of all time, "White Christmas", with reported sales of over 50 million copies (and possibly over 100 million copies sold encompassing all versions, including albums). This album also contains one of my favorite Christmas songs, "Mele Kalikimaka", a perfect blend of Christmas cheer without all the dreary cold and snow. I hope everyone has a great holiday season!
- Nominated by WillMak050389
Free Music of the Week
In this week's new adventure into the realm of free music, I have stumbled across 50 Foot Wave's catalog. Though the vocals aren't to my taste, I really like their instrumentation. They've got a great sound and I could see myself continuing listening to their material. Available for download here, you can download their full free catalog, which contains almost all of their material, including eight of the eleven tracks off of this album, Golden Ocean. Included in the download is a full instrumental collection, which interests me (so as to avoid the vocals). I'm really looking forward to listening to more of their material.
- Nominated by User:WillMak050389
Editors' Corner
» Wikia
LyricWiki in the old sense of the word has shut down. However, the entire contents has been contributed to this new wiki which is run by Wikia. Wikia has a licensing deal with music publishers, so the project will be able to survive and thrive!
Read more about these changes in The Announcement.
Unfortunately, licensing agreements with the biggest publishers in the music industry require us to no longer offer the ability for programmatic access to LyricWiki's collection of lyrics.
We tried to arrange some way to let API Developers license through us, but this was not possible.
While this is not something we are happy about, it is a necessity in order to finally secure licensing for LyricWiki from the major publishers which will allow the project to survive indefinitely.
For more info, please see the letter to API Developers
Thanks to the concentrated efforts of all the editors who took this project on board, there are now just 49 songs needing language identification. So how's about we give it our best shot over the next few weeks to reduce this figure to zero?
For the benefit of all our new editors, here's what needs doing: the language of the lyrics of all the songs found in the above category need to be identified and entered in the language parameter of the SongFooter (N.B. using the English language name).
Happy editing!
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